Device for transmitting power



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W. H. DODGE.

DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING POWER.

No. 359,596. Patented Mar. 22, 1887.

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VVALLAOE H. DODGE, OF MISHAVVAKA, INDIANA.

DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING POWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent. No. 359,596, dated March 22, 1887.

Application filed July 1, 1886. Serial No. 206,794. (No model.)

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ing is a full and accurate description of the same.

This invention relatesto the device for trans mitting power for which Letters Patent were granted to me June 23, 1885, No. 320,544, and it relates to an improvement in the manner of winding the pulleys for certain purposes.

The figure represenls in perspective my invention.

A is the main d riving-pulley, and B the main driven pulley. Supposing the driven pulley B is at some distance from the drivingpulley Asay a hundred feet or morethelength of rope E required would be twice the distance between the pulleys, and the weight of the rope so suspended would cause a material strain on the journal-bearings. It is necessary to pass the transmitting-rope around both pulleys for draft, and then once for lead to the slack-take'up 0, because said pulley 0 must take up slack and lead the rope back again to the first groove in the main pulley, and therefore this last turn cannot perform labor in the transmission.

The object of my present invention is to avoid the necessity of the last-named turn over improvement, supposing the slack-take-upto be near the driven pulley, the last turn,which is a slack turn,passes the snub-pulley instead of going again to the driven pulley. By this means the journal-bearings are relieved from the strain due to the length of rope necessary to pass once over the driven pulley.

Having described my invention, I claim as new The transmitting-rope E, the pulleys A B, and the slack-take-up pulley Qcombined with asnub-pulley, D, placed between the said pulleys A B, to take the slack and return it to the pulley O, as and for the purpose set forth.

IVALLAGE H. DODGE.

\Vitnesses:

WILL W. Donen, R. D. 0. SMITH. 

